Now playing: Watch this: Can you leave the iPhone’s Home button behind? (Apple… 2:20 Subscribe to the Apple Byte Podcast iTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBurner MP3 Stitcher | Google Play | TuneIn iTunes video | RSS video | FeedBurner video YouTube | Livestream | Periscope Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 98 Your browser does …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple set to launch the next iPhone on September 12 1:12 The next iPhone (or, iPhones). A new Apple Watch. Siri. Lots and lots of augmented reality. These are just a few of things we’re expecting from Apple this year, and now the date is official: Tuesday, September 12. This year, Apple’s big reveal is at …
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We just saw the first fruits of Apple‘s labors to turn your phone into a window to other worlds. The Walking Dead is coming to the App Store as an ARKit game, where you’ll fight zombie and human alike alongside AI versions of Michonne, Rick and even Negan. No release date yet. Next Games In the corner of a real …
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Now playing: Watch this: ARCore is Google’s augmented-reality platform for Android 1:17 Google wants to get augmented reality on more phones with ARCore. Google If Google knows one thing, it’s how to get a lot of people to use its technology. The search giant has seven products with more than a billion users, including Google Maps, Gmail and its iconic …
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Google pledged last November that Tango, its 3D-sensing camera technology that can measure objects just by looking at them, would be the hottest thing since GPS. Nikhil Chandhok, Tango’s director of product, insisted it wasn’t just an experiment. “Many, many phone manufacturers” would build Tango phones in 2017, he said. Well, guess what? Turns out it was an experiment, one …
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Now playing: Watch this: Star Wars secrets to be revealed in AR game on Force… 1:30 A new augmented-reality element is coming to Disney’s Star Wars app in time for Force Friday. More on ‘The Last Jedi’ ‘Last Jedi’ reveals two new vehicles from upcoming film Star Wars tweet leaves fans dreaming of ‘Last Jedi’ trailer ‘Last Jedi’ director discusses whether …
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Samsung, welcome to the dual-rear-camera club. It’s the fastest growing club for phones, with members like the Huawei P10, the OnePlus 5, the LG G6, the Essential Phone and of course, the iPhone 7 Plus. So how can the Galaxy Note 8 stand out? Easy. It has one spec that no other dual-rear-camera phone has: both cameras have optical image stabilization (OIS). For photos this …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Note 8 will try to win back burned Note 7 fans 3:32 On Wednesday, August 23, Samsung will reveal its most hotly anticipated phone in years — partly because the Galaxy Note 8 will almost certainly be the company’s highest-end flagship device and partly because the previous version had a tendency to burst into flames. …
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Qualcomm is pumped up. The San Diego, California-based chipmaker, whose flagship Snapdragon 835 chipset is featured in the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S8, HTC U11 and OnePlus 5, is anticipating 2018 to be a big year for Android phones. Though the company’s main launch for its next chipset (the successor to the 835) is scheduled for later this December, …
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Mozilla plans to release a version of its Firefox browser Tuesday that embraces a version of virtual reality for the web. Back in 2014, Mozilla developers including Vladimir Vukicevic put together a concept called WebVR. The idea was to let web browsers navigate virtual realms, and make it easier for people to create a VR world once that would work …
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